Family hopeful Joan Rivers will recover

Joan Rivers’ loved ones said that they remain hopeful about her recovery after she went into cardiac arrest at a doctor’s office.

“We are keeping our fingers crossed,” her daughter, Melissa Rivers, said in a statement, thanking people who have expressed support for the 81-year-old comedienne. Rivers had on Friday described her mother’s condition as serious.

Joan Rivers was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital on Thursday, a day after she spoke at an employee event at Time Inc in New York. Spectators there said she had appeared to be well. She is in a medically induced coma doctors hope will slow down her metabolism and limit neurological function.